Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> I advise people doing streaming to not use MTU's larger than ~1450 for 
> these sorts of reasons.
The unfortunate side-effect of that is that most prominent streaming 
apps (don't know about Youtube though) then send fragmented UDP packets 
which leads to reassembly overhead and in case of lost packets, a 
significantly larger lost data than neccessary.

Pete

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